Describe how Mars got its name; Mars was named after the Roman god of war.
Who Discovered Mars; The Babylonians
When; N/A
How; They made careful observations and developed a sophisticated system for predicting astronomical events, it was visible by the naked eye.
Where; N/A
Distances:
Order from the sun; Fourth planet from the sun
Distance from the Sun; At farthest 154.8 million miles at closest 128.6 million miles
Distance from the Earth; On average 225 million km
Plant measurements:
Mass; 6.4219 * 10^23 kg
Volume; 163,115,609,799 km2
Orbit and Rotation:
Number of days to orbit sun; 687 Earth days
Perihelion; 128.6 million miles
Equatorial Circumference; 13,203 miles
Mean Density; 3.934 g/cm3
Gravity; 2,342.376 g
Aphelion; 154,865,850 miles
Length of One Day; 24.623 hours
Planet Appearance; Mars is a rocky, cold, and sterile beneath its hazy pink sky. Its red because the rust of the iron that it's made out of. It has many craters and it is half the size of Earth.
Rings; N/A
Satellites; Phobos-27km long, Deimos-15 km long, both are cratered, orbit mars in a low orbit, and probably fragments of larger objects
Composition:
Core composition; Mars has a core that is mainly iron, and sulfur wrapped in a mantle that is silicates
Surface composition; Made of basalt and just enough iron oxide to give the planet its characteristic reddish hue.
Atmosphere:
Major gases; //carbon dioxide//, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, carbon monoxide
Weather; The daytime summer temperatures get up to 80 degrees F at night the temperature can drop to almost -200 degrees F
Water
So far frost and condensation
Explorations:
Phobos- grunt, Nov. 8, 2011 Yinshuo- Nov. 8, 2011 Mars science laboratory- 26 Nov. 2011 Phoenix 04 Aug. 2007
Habitability:
To live on the planet Mars it would first have to be changed by the process of terra forming- or, in layman terms, make the land more Earth-like. You would be freezing if it wasn't.
Future human travel; It is important to provide everything you have to live; food, air, exercise, and more. People will have to have a living space, places to grow crops, and a water supply. If we had these thing on Mars then maybe someday we could go to Mars.
Terraforming; It would have to be warmer and the surface would have to be similar to Earth's, and there couldn't be as much crators for humans to live there.
Cool Facts:
If you weigh 100 pounds on earth, you'll weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
3 interesting fact:
1.The month of March is named after Mars 2. During a Mars winter, 20% of the air freezes 3. Mars' crust is thicker than Earth's and is made up of one piece
Mars
Describe how Mars got its name;
Mars was named after the Roman god of war.
Who Discovered Mars;
The Babylonians
When;
N/A
How;
They made careful observations and developed a sophisticated system for predicting astronomical events, it was visible by the naked eye.
Where;
N/A
Distances:
Order from the sun;Fourth planet from the sun
Distance from the Sun;
At farthest 154.8 million miles
at closest 128.6 million miles
Distance from the Earth;
On average 225 million km
Plant measurements:
Mass;6.4219 * 10^23 kg
Volume;
163,115,609,799 km2
Orbit and Rotation:
Number of days to orbit sun;687 Earth days
Perihelion;
128.6 million miles
Equatorial Circumference;
13,203 miles
Mean Density;
3.934 g/cm3
Gravity;
2,342.376 g
Aphelion;
154,865,850 miles
Length of One Day;
24.623 hours
Planet Appearance;
Mars is a rocky, cold, and sterile beneath its hazy pink sky. Its red because the rust of the iron that it's made out of. It has many craters and it is half the size of Earth.
Rings;
N/A
Satellites;
Phobos-27km long, Deimos-15 km long, both are cratered, orbit mars in a low orbit, and probably fragments of larger objects
Composition:
Core composition;Mars has a core that is mainly iron, and sulfur wrapped in a mantle that is silicates
Surface composition;
Made of basalt and just enough iron oxide to give the planet its characteristic reddish hue.
Atmosphere:
Major gases;
//carbon dioxide//, nitrogen, argon, oxygen, carbon monoxide
Minor gases;
water, nitrogen oxide, neon, hydrogen- deuterium- oxygen, krypton, xenon
Surface condition:
Wind speeds;30 meters/second
Temperature ranges;
-125 to 23 degrees F
Surface pressure;
0.7-0.9 Kpa
Weather;
The daytime summer temperatures get up to 80 degrees F at night the temperature can drop to almost -200 degrees F
Water
So far frost and condensationExplorations:
Phobos- grunt, Nov. 8, 2011Yinshuo- Nov. 8, 2011
Mars science laboratory- 26 Nov. 2011
Phoenix 04 Aug. 2007
Habitability:
To live on the planet Mars it would first have to be changed by the process of terra forming- or, in layman terms, make the land more Earth-like. You would be freezing if it wasn't.Future human travel;
It is important to provide everything you have to live; food, air, exercise, and more. People will have to have a living space, places to grow crops, and a water supply. If we had these thing on Mars then maybe someday we could go to Mars.
Terraforming;
It would have to be warmer and the surface would have to be similar to Earth's, and there couldn't be as much crators for humans to live there.
Cool Facts:
If you weigh 100 pounds on earth, you'll weigh 38 pounds on Mars.3 interesting fact:
1.The month of March is named after Mars2. During a Mars winter, 20% of the air freezes
3. Mars' crust is thicker than Earth's and is made up of one piece
References:
Random FactsNASA/gov.
mars institute